(19)
(11) EP 1 367 560 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
14.01.2004 Bulletin 2004/03

(43) Date of publication A2:
03.12.2003 Bulletin 2003/49

(21) Application number: 03011655.2

(22) Date of filing: 22.05.2003
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7G10K 15/02, G10K 15/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK

(30) Priority: 27.05.2002 JP 2002152127
05.03.2003 JP 2003058728

(71) Applicants:
  • YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken 430-8650 (JP)
  • Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
    Iwata-shi Shizuoka 438-8501 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Toba, Nobukazu
    Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken, 430-8650 (JP)
  • Sugii, Kiyohisa
    Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken, 430-8650 (JP)
  • Tada, Yukio
    Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken, 430-8650 (JP)
  • Miyabe, Motoaki
    Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken, 430-8650 (JP)
  • Maeda, Osamu
    Iwata, Shizuoka 438-8501 (JP)
  • Yoshizawa, Akihiro
    Iwata, Shizuoka 438-8501 (JP)

(74) Representative: Kehl, Günther, Dipl.-Phys. 
Patentanwaltskanzlei Günther Kehl Friedrich-Herschel-Strasse 9
81679 München
81679 München (DE)

   


(54) Vehicle capable of giving information acoustically on its state, and method for giving information acoustically on the state of the vehicle


(57) Operational states of one or more operators employed in a vehicle are detected to generate operational information corresponding to the detected operational states. Also, one or more traveling states of the vehicle are detected to generate traveling information corresponding to the detected traveling states. There is provided a table storing correspondency between various operational and traveling information and various sound control information, and sound control information corresponding to generated operational or traveling information is obtained with reference to the table. Sound signal is generated on the basis of the obtained sound control information to auditorily inform a user of the vehicle of the operational or traveling state of the vehicle. Contents of the table may be changed as desired by the user. There may be provided a plurality of tables so that the user can select any one of the tables.







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